A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They’re densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They’re old, dating back almost to ...

Searching for ET? Check out one of the Milky Way's 150 or so globular star clusters. That's where you'll find the sort of quiet, well-established stellar neighborhoods that might provide favorable ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is 30 years old, and in its long career it’s photographed many of the 150 “globular clusters” that surround the Milky Way galaxy—like its latest photo, this week, of NGC ...

BOSTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) --Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say globular clusters -- large, dense spheres of stars -- are the galactic regions most likely to harbor ...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Densely packed groups of stars may make excellent cradles for complex space-traveling life to evolve. Despite studies that claim these environments, known as globular clusters, may ...

The word globule isn’t the most appealing term. Maybe this is why globular clusters don’t get as much press as they deserve. These dense collections of ancient stars numbering in the tens of thousands ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For decades, astronomers have tracked black holes with masses millions of times that of the sun, ...

A strange, newly measured clump of stars orbiting the nearby Andromeda galaxy has the lowest level of heavy chemical elements ever seen in one of these mysterious star clusters. Named RBC EXT8, this ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to ...